This Research Topic addresses the eleventh Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), which is to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” Several individual targets and indicators measure progress toward this goal. Researchers study, among others, urban...

Renderings are digital visualisations of urban development projects in the field of urban design that aim to create spatial knowledge about future-built urban environments, which we also refer to as imaginaries. In our contribution, we ask how visual artists design renderings, how they try to...

Mandaue is a crucial city in Cebu island, Philippines as it links other large metropolises and is highly industrialized. The occurrence of urban heat island (UHI) in Mandaue was already confirmed by a previous study. In this paper, we aim to determine how UHI in Mandaue could be improved by...

Mandaue is a crucial city in Cebu island, Philippines as it links other large metropolises and is highly industrialized. The occurrence of urban heat island (UHI) in Mandaue was already confirmed by a previous study. In this paper, we aim to determine how UHI in Mandaue could be improved by...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the neurocognitive status of people with different moods (depressed and non-depressed) both in a typical urban environment (TUE) and in an urban green environment (UGE). Design/methodology/approach The study was conducted with the participation of 210...

The aim of this paper is to understand the social process of the emergence and institutionalization of innovations in spatial planning (which we describe as ‘social innovations’). The paper is based on a recently finished empirical and comparative study conducted in four distinct areas of...

Chapter 1. The Initial Response Systems used for Major Earthquakes and Disaster-resistant City Planning -- Chapter 2. Theory of Spare City Planning: for Temporary Use in Case of Emergency -- Chapter 3. Reconstruction Plans -- Chapter 4. Summary and Issues That Need to Be Considered -- Chapter 5....

History of management and stratigraphy of organizing / Luca Zan -- From manufacturing to industry: the turn in the late 19th century / Pasquale Ventrice -- The recovery of the Arsenal: the process from 1980 until today / Claudio Menichelli -- The role of the Agenzia del Demanio (State Property...

The scope of this book is to map China's city clusters and their individual directions for the national-level strategies in line with the 2060 carbon neutrality plan. Since China announced the carbon neutrality plan in autumn 2020, no study has looked at the role of city clusters in achieving...

Leitbilder bieten die Möglichkeit, gesellschaftliche Interessen zu bündeln und in Prozesse der Stadtentwicklung einzubringen. Gesundheitliche Ziele nahmen in der Stadtplanung bereits früh, beispielsweise in der Gartenstadtbewegung oder auch in der Charta von Athen, eine wichtige Rolle ein....

Dieser Beitrag stellt den Einsatz digitaler Werkzeuge in der gesundheitsfördernden Stadtgestaltung vor. Der Fokus liegt auf der Frage nach der Bedeutung von mobilen Applikationen in verschiedenen Planungsphasen und deren Potenzial, Beteiligung in der gesundheitsfördernden Stadtgestaltung zu...

Leitbilder bieten die Möglichkeit, gesellschaftliche Interessen zu bündeln und in Prozesse der Stadtentwicklung einzubringen. Gesundheitliche Ziele nahmen in der Stadtplanung bereits früh, beispielsweise in der Gartenstadtbewegung oder auch in der Charta von Athen, eine wichtige Rolle ein....

Dieser Beitrag stellt den Einsatz digitaler Werkzeuge in der gesundheitsfördernden Stadtgestaltung vor. Der Fokus liegt auf der Frage nach der Bedeutung von mobilen Applikationen in verschiedenen Planungsphasen und deren Potenzial, Beteiligung in der gesundheitsfördernden Stadtgestaltung zu...

Purpose This paper reviews, summarizes and pieces together scattered information on the newly completed Chicago Riverwalk in Chicago, Illinois. It explains the design process that transformed an outmoded infrastructure and disused river banks into an attractive gathering civic space, a linear...

Purpose Over the coming decades, the widespread application of social distancing creates challenges for the urban planning and design profession. This article aims to address the phenomenon of boredom in public places, its main influences that generate change in repetition, monotony and everyday...

Which knowledge and ideas are brought into the design of food markets by developers and operators of food markets and negotiated with the municipalities (administration, politics)? This article deals with the dynamics and logics of physical space production in relation to food markets, in...

Purpose China’s capital Beijing is a special case of fast urbanization and monocentric development, resulting in major efforts to implement polycentric structures. The purpose of this paper is thus centered on understanding the phenomenon of an established edge city and the level of...

Purpose This paper expounds theoretical reasons behind and practical applications of urban natural space as part of the ontological whole of the city. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, nonsecular and secular relationships between humans and nature are explored from an ontological...